Sports

A week ago I started my first swimming training at Lake Oswego. I was placed in the highest group and started getting back into it. One of the bad things about the swimming pools is that the lanes sizes are not the same. Most pools here are 25 yards - the lanes are narrower, and crowded. I banged up my hand and my ankle so far. Everybody in this development squad is extremely fast and some are training for the Olympic trials. I can barely keep up, even doing my best stroke - breast stroke. Training goes for two hours and normally consists of half an hour of land training, followed by an hour and a half of swimming. The land training is pretty straight forward doing sprints and lots of drills. Then in the pool we always have to do lots of IM pull which is the hardest thing I've ever done. It is especially hard when Coach makes you use your arms only to do the butterfly!

 Today we went to the Portland Timbers soccer game. It was basically a play, what with all the fake injuries. The Timbers played Chivas and won 3-0. Every time the Timbers scored a guy would cut a section of a log out marking one goal. The crowd also was pretty into it especially on the west grandstand side. People were yelling and jumping about. Whenever a goal was scored green smoke would erupt from smoke machines and it smelt pretty bad. It also covered the goalies so someone could have had a quick goal.